Production technology of bonsai with Chinese wolfberry

(1) drawing materials

The wood source of Chinese wolfberry is mainly sowing and reproduction, and it can also be propagated by cutting or dividing evil, and it can also be supplemented by mountain excavation. Sowing and propagation are usually sown from March to April, the sowing depth is 2 cm to 3 cm, the row spacing is 15 cm to 20 cm, and the grass or curtain is covered after sowing, and it can be germinated and unearthed in about 20 to 25 days. After unearthed, uncover the grass to build a shade shed, enter the normal seedling bed management-watering, fertilization, weeding, etc., and transplant and separate planting after 2-3 years. Cuttings are often carried out in the rainy season, selecting the semi-lignified branches of the year as cuttings, with a length of 10-15 cm, leaving 4-6 leaves, and inserting the depth of 1-inch-2-2-3 of cuttings. Shade after insertion, keep the soil moist, and take root in about 60 days. After leaving the bed for 1-2 years, it was transplanted in spring. Can also dig the root part of the evil reproduction. On the edge of the mountain ditch in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there are often some wild old piles, which are trimmed after they are dug back, carefully raised and processed in the basin, which can be quickly made into simple and elegant foliage bonsai.

(2) upper basin

Selection of pots: glazed pottery or purple sand pottery pots are often used in the production of bonsai, or stone chiseling basins can also be used; potted colors can be exposed with purple, blue, light yellow and gray; dark green should not be used, because the color is similar to that of leaves and can not play the role of color difference. The basin shape can be rectangular, square, round waist and round drum.

Use soil: Chinese wolfberry bone should use fertile, loose, permeable and slightly acidic soil. The basin soil can be made of rotten leaf soil, pastoral soil and sand.

Planting: transplanting is often carried out after autumn or before sprouting in spring. As the main root of Chinese wolfberry is less and the lateral root is well developed, it should be transplanted with soil ball when planting in order to protect the fibrous root. At the same time, some branches and leaves on the basin were pruned properly.

(3) modelling

The branches of Chinese wolfberry are hard and brittle and are usually processed during the plum rain season and when the sap flows vigorously. Because of its large and hard leaves, it is generally better to use brown wire climbing, not with metal wire climbing, otherwise it is easy to cause branch and leaf damage. The stiff leaves are hard and sharp. In modeling, the unnecessary branches and leaves can be cut off first, and the rest of the branches can be clamped and trimmed. The tree shape of Chinese wolfbone can be made into straight type, oblique dry type, curved type and cliff type and so on. Small bonsai is better in natural style, large bonsai can tie the branches and leaves into clouds, and the ancient pile scenery appears with the beauty of hanging root and bending dry style.